DEEPWATER EL

DEEPWATER EL is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in PASADENA, Texas, run under DEER PARK ISD, hosting 629 students in grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 519 students per school, that is 21% larger than typical.

DEER PARK ISD runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 12,165 students. DEEPWATER EL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, DEEPWATER EL reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (87%); the rest breaks down as 6% White, 6% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 44%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 83% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Harris County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, DEEPWATER EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.5%, the actual is 36.6%, a residual of -0.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Harris County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,983 per year, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Harris County runs 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), of which DEEPWATER EL is one.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around DEEPWATER EL. On composite proficiency, DEEPWATER EL comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 48.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 22%: 811 students in 2018 compared to 629 in 2025.

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